Check out the best art pictures of the week…..

1. The hyperreal painting of Antonio Castelló: Fruit, Oil on Canvas, 2006 [1575x1302]

2. Ivan Aivazovsky – Ship on stormy seas – 1858 {2500×1766}

3. Marcus Larson – Steamship in Sunset – 1850s {3075×2317}

4. Il Penseroso, by John Everett Millais – one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. [724*1024]

5. “Napoleon Crossing the Alps”-Jaques-Louis David, 1800 [1,169X1371] Oil on Canvas

6. Ceiling of the Palais Garnier, the opera house for the Paris Opera [2099x1312]

7.  Natural dirty window texture, leaving the train station,Tivoli [Italy] [OC] [1935x1935]

  8. James Jean — Tiger, 2010 (Album In Comms) [1080X785]

  9. Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1913) [756X1,024]

  10. Crown Fountain – public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago’s Millennium Park, designed by Jaume Plensa [1024x683]

11. Kay Nielsen — In Powder & Crinoline, 1912 (AIC) [1280X942]

  13. A warm evening is a good time for fishing – Driftwood art at Hokitika (x-post from pics) [OC] [4500x3000]

  14. Night view, Rome hinterland [Italy] [OC] [2592x1936]

  15. Viking art from Denmark (reconstruction of original colours of a rune stone) [1024 x 768]

  16. Floral art – three echinops flower heads and reflections on a kitchen bench (xpost from botanical) [OC] [5184x3456]

  17. Retablo Mayor – Seville, Spain [664 x 1000] [OC]

  18. Murales – Silvestro Regina, Peschici [Italy] [OC] [4851x3142]

  19. Driftwood Art at Hokitika [OC] [4583x3050]

  20. Compasses Lines (by C. Kornmeßer) [1020x1000]